IOANNIS STRIKOS
Important work rarely becomes expensive because of one wrong decision. It becomes expensive when correction comes too late.
I help organisations reduce costly rework by making decisions, ownership, and disagreement clear before they scale.
TWO DIRECTIONS I'M WATCHING CLOSELY
01. AI speeds up execution and speeds up misalignment
Organisations deploying AI for efficiency are often solving the symptom, not the source. The ones getting the most from it aren’t going faster — they’re building capabilities that weren’t possible before. That distinction starts with alignment, not tooling.
02. Agentic systems inherit every unresolved team alignment problem
When agents join a team, the same patterns that create delays between humans such as unclear ownership, assumed context, misaligned goals, apply to the human-agent interface too. Designing for that is the underestimated work in every agentic deployment.
HOW I WORK
Organisations don't evolve by installing something new. They evolve by building it themselves.
Most consultants hand you a framework and move on. I don’t. I build the judgment to know what actually fits — this team, this problem, right now — together with the people who’ll use it, not for them. The structures and the collaboration happen at the same time, not in stages.
And I don’t disappear when it’s working. I just get harder to need.
SERVICES
DIAGNOSTIC
Alignment Risk Diagnostic
For leaders who sense the cost of misalignment, or of holding onto a fixed solution past its use.
A close look at how decisions, priorities, and ownership actually move today — not how the org chart says they should. Two risks I’m looking for:
- Teams moving in different directions without knowing it
- Teams frozen around a solution that already needs to change
Both cost you. Both stay invisible until they’re expensive. This is usually where the work starts, not where it ends.
DESIGN
Lean Speed & Alignment Design
For organisations scaling speed through AI and smaller teams
Hands-on, in the room: decision structures, team interfaces, feedback loops, and the habits that let a team keep moving as the solution changes.
- Reward structures that don’t punish early mistakes.
- Review points across more than one time horizon.
- Ownership that survives change instead of resisting it.
ADVISORY
Decision Resilience Support for Executives
For executives leading through real uncertainty, AI-driven change included.
The same work, at the altitude where it’s hardest:
- stress-testing assumptions,
- naming disagreement early,
- building the muscle to change course before a crisis forces it.
Not the perfect decision — a decision that still holds when the ground shifts..
BOOK
PUBLISHED AT STRIKOS.COM/AI
Introduction to Agentic AI
A practical guide through the landscape of AI agents — from foundations and architecture to risks, business applications, and the responsibility questions every organisation needs to face before they deploy.
Written for leaders who need conceptual clarity, not just technical introductions.
I wrote this book because organisations deploying AI agents are about to make the same alignment mistakes I’ve spent years helping teams avoid, at a speed and scale where corrections arrive even later.
The technology is learnable. What most organisations are missing is the human collaboration and judgment layer that makes it work.
Read the book → strikos.com/ai/introduction-to-agentic-ai
WHERE TO START
Something isn’t moving
You have speed on the roadmap but the same issues keep resurfacing. Start with the Alignment Risk Diagnostic — one engagement to name what’s actually in the way.
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You’re building with AI
Designing systems that include AI agents changes how teams need to work together. Read the book first — then let’s talk about what it means for your organisation.
Not sure where to start
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